Nuala McGrath

Director at Frontier Science

Professor McGrath has more than 30 years of experience in HIV surveillance, treatment and prevention studies and intervention trials in sub-Saharan Africa. Professor McGrath received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (University of Exeter, UK); a Masters in Biometry (University of Reading, UK); and a Doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Harvard School of Public Health, USA). She was a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow (2008-2015), has lived in the USA, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi and South Africa, and has previously held Honorary appointments with the HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB research program, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa (2007-2010), and the Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, UK (2014-2017). Professor McGrath has served on Steering Committees and Independent Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for NIMH, NIHR and ANRS funded multi-site HIV studies and clinical trials. She has also served on fellowship panels for the Welcome Trust, the African Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. Since 2017, Professor McGrath is a UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner and Lead Commissioner for Equity and Access. See Dr. McGrath’s Faculty page at the University of Southampton.